Taxing questions

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Two documents produced over the past few days both call for a substantial rise in state expenditure and in one instance, a significant increase in the tax burden.

On Saturday, the Right2Water campaign launched a policy document under its Right2Change guise. It hopes the measures it proposes will unite left-wing parties and independent candidates going into the next election. The group’s policies include state-guaranteed employment for everyone who wants a job; scrapping all water and property taxes, introducing rent controls and a vastly increased supply of social housing; free health and education services. It also wants the minimum wage increased